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| Jesus was born from the virgin named Mary. The angel Gabriel appeared to her and told her that she was going to give birth to a boy. She was going to name him Jesus. And "he will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, the Lord God will give him the throne of his Father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, his kingdom will never end." Luke 1:32-34. | |||||||||
| God has chosen Mary to fulfil the prophecies in the Old Testament, such as Isaiah's prophecy "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel-which means 'God with us' ". | |||||||||
| Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. This was to show us that although he is a king, he was born in the most humiliating of places to teach us humbleness. | |||||||||
| He lived with his mother and Joseph the Carpenter (whom he worked with) and was brought in Nazareth. There is nothing about Jesus until about when he was 12, where he went into the temple and was talking to the Jewish High Priests as if he was one of them. Then there is again no account of his life until the age of about 33, when he was baptised by his cousin John the Baptist, and he started performing miracles. These include the turning of water into wine at the wedding at Cana in Galilee, raising three dead people and healing illnesses. He performed many miracles including feeding 5000 men (women and children not counted in the Bible) with only 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread, and there were 12 full baskets remaining. He was also tested by the devil during the forty days he spent in the wilderness, and he taught the people Christianity and used a lot of parables to make his teachings easy for the people to understand. Jesus was a great teacher and leader. He taught and explained things by using parables. These parables were mainly about farmers and shepherds, this is because the people that Jesus told stories to were mainly farmers and shepherds. Examples of these parables are the parable of the lost Sheep and the parable of the seeds that fell on different grounds. | |||||||||
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